Zeitschrift für Ostmitteleuropa-Forschung / Journal of East Central European Studies (ZfO)
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Variations and Transformations of Childhood in the Bohemian Lands and Slovakia. Hrsg. von Frank Henschel, Jan Randák, Martina Winkler und Gabriela Dudeková Kováčová
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Grzegorz Motyka: From the Volhynian Massacre to Operation Vistula. The Polish-Ukrainian Conflict 1943–1947
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Gender, Generations, and Communism in Central and Eastern Europe and Beyond. Hrsg. von Anna Artwińska und Agnieszka Mrozik
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Music and Change in the Eastern Baltics before and after 1989. Hrsg. von Rūta Stanevičiūtė und Małgorzata Janicka-Słysz
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"If This Is a Woman. Studies on Women and Gender in the Holocaust. Hrsg. von Denisa Nešťáková, Katja Grosse-Sommer, Borbála Klacsmann und Jakub Drábik."
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The Shiite as the Heretic Other? The Nuanced Discourse of Shiite Islam as a Variant of Central European Orientalism (S. 373–399)
No full textThe general autonomy of Central European authors from a Western power agenda as postulated by the mainstream critique of Orientalism is well known. At the same time, scholars have paid much less attention to the attitude of the modern Hungarian, Czech, Polish, and Slovenian corpus vis-à-vis Shi’ism,a narrow branch of the subject of Orientalism. This study argues that a certain bias in this context can be identified on the part of regional academics of the twentieth century, which might be explained by personal preferences for Sunni Orthodoxy. Simultaneously, this paper seeks to explore the reasons for such a tendency within the context of specific historical development at the frontiers. To this end, it presents case studies that juxtapose the relevant experiences with the classic Orientalist criticism of Western intellectual life introduced by scholars such as Edward Said, Talal Asad, Joseph Massad, and Mahmood Mamdani. The general autonomy of Central European authors from a Western power agenda as postulated by the mainstream critique of Orientalism is well known. At the same time, scholars have paid much less attention to the attitude of the modern Hungarian, Czech, Polish, and Slovenian corpus vis-à-vis Shi’ism,a narrow branch of the subject of Orientalism. This study argues that a certain bias in this context can be identified on the part of regional academics of the twentieth century, which might be explained by personal preferences for Sunni Orthodoxy. Simultaneously, this paper seeks to explore the reasons for such a tendency within the context of specific historical development at the frontiers. To this end, it presents case studies that juxtapose the relevant experiences with the classic Orientalist criticism of Western intellectual life introduced by scholars such as Edward Said, Talal Asad, Joseph Massad, and Mahmood Mamdani.